peacefulfish provided strategic advice to the Catalan Institute for Cultural Companies (ICEC), who coordinated the Access To Finance Working Group within the European Creative Industries Alliance’s Policy Learning Platform (ECIAP). Furthermore, peacefulfish provided the Working Group's steering committee with a positioning paper and participated in discussions that led to a benchmarking impact assessment study. This was based on an online survey about existing financing tools for the Cultural & Creative Industries. The results of the impact assessment provided the basis for a set of recommendations for financing the Cultural & Creative Industries that were made available to ECIAP in March 2014.

A pilot project for the Directorate General For Education And Culture of the European Commission, @Diversity is managed by a consortium led by peacefulfish and including Kennisland and MFG. The project is designed to select, train, and promote European entrepreneurs whose ideas make innovative use of ICT-based technologies to create, make accessible, spread, and/or finance cultural products. Twelve ideas were selected as the result of a competition that was launched in May 2013, with the selected entrepreneurs being announced at a high-profile event held during the European Culture Forum in Brussels in November 2013. Following their selection, the entrepreneurs receive further training through the framework of @Diversity on topics including legal issues, business modeling, technology, access to finance, marketing, and networking with the aim being to attract financing for the idea and transform it into a sustainable project, product, or service that enriches Europe‘s cultural landscape and strengthens its cultural and creative sectors for the future.

Focused on the key challenges, both real and perceived, for equity investors to invest in the creative industries in Europe, this study was prepared by peacefulfish for the ST'ART Investment Fund, the European Design Centre, Cultuur-Ondernemen, and Angel Capital Innovations. An analysis of investors’ perceptions about financing the creative industries was conducted with an emphasis on mapping the obstacles that exist and defining what type of financial infrastructure is needed to enhance investment activity. Through interviews with a range of investors, the study explored on the supply side (i.e. the sources of equity) and their requirements while also keeping in mind the demand side (i.e. the small and medium-sized creative enterprises that require investment in order to thrive) as a context for formulating a set of conclusions and recommendations.

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Daefh - Challenges of the Digital Era for Film Heritage Institutions (2012)

2012 | European Commission DG Connect

Prepared for the European Commission, this study on the challenges and opportunities of the digital era for film heritage institutions was conducted by peacefulfish with subcontracting partners including Red Cat Technologies, the University of Helsinki/IPR University Center, and external expert Nicola Mazzanti. Through an analysis of what film heritage institutions face in relation to the collection, storage, and long-term preservation of digital film material as well as the digital restoration, digitization, and access to collections as a result of the advent of new technologies, a working draft of this study formulated. This draft was then presented and discussed by film archivists, technologists, and representatives from the European film industry during a workshop in Brussels in September 2011 before the final draft of the study was completed.

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Study on Business Incubator Creation for JEDCO

2010 | JEDCO

The Jordan Enterprise Development Corporation (JEDCO) along with the European Business and Innovation Centre (EBN) and with the support of the SRTD (an EU-funded programme) collaborated with peacefulfish to prepare a feasibility study on the creation of a business incubator for creative industries companies in Jordan. Key topics investigated by the study included the overall growth potential of the creative industries as well as ways of introducing entrepreneurship in the sector.

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Study on Public Funding for Creative Industries Companies

2010 | Pole Media Grand Paris

The Cap Digital competitiveness cluster is the digital hub of the Ile de France region and, as a means to support the economic dynamics of the cluster, a benchmarking study was initiated as the basis for the creation of an investment structure that could finance companies and promising projects from the cluster. Carried out by peacefulfish in partnership with Media Deals, the benchmarking study provided an in-depth look at how public funds invest in early-stage digital media/creative industries companies in the United Kingdom and Germany. Specifically, a comparative analysis was conducted of public investment funds in Greater London (Greater London Authority) and Berlin (Land Berlin) as both cities have established funds to support business creation in the digital media/creative industries sector. The result was not only a set of recommendations on how to set up and implement such a public fund in Paris but also the organization of a coaching event to exchange know-how and strengthen the collaboration between Paris and Berlin at an institutional level.

The Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region is one of Europe’s economic hubs, however this has not led it to become one of the leading media regions in Europe. This positioning study analyzed why this is the case as well as developed the basis for a strategic location profile that could be implemented by the region in order to raise awareness about its focus on media and the creative industries as well as attract investment in this sector to the region in the medium term. Based on existing data and complemented by interviews and roundtable discussions with stakeholders, the study assessed the existing economic potential of the creative industries in Frankfurt/Rhine-Main, evaluating the performance of the region in comparison with other strong international media regions that manage to benefit from their creative industries as a result of innovative positioning, clustering, and financing models

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Study on Home Entertainment, Digital Convergence and SME

2008 | STUDY ON HOME ENTERTAINMENT

An in-depth study on the fast-changing home entertainment sector (Pay TV, Video-On-Demand, DVD, Video Games, Internet, etc.) and the impact of digital convergence on Small & Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) and the audiovisual works that they produce. Data from 31 MEDIA member countries (27 EU member states plus Iceland, Norway, Lichtenstein, and Switzerland) was analyzed, focusing on what types of audiovisual works are consumed in the home, how they are consumed, etc. The aim of the study was to identify the challenges and opportunities facing the European home entertainment sector as a whole and to make recommendations to the MEDIA Programme about how they can best assist SMEs in Europe to adapt to and benefit from digital convergence in this sector..

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Ready 2 invest and Ready 4 growth (R4G) - seminars

2008 - 2013 | Barcelona Activa

The Ready 4 Growth seminar series are peacefulfish\'s tailored seminars to increase the possibilities of small enterprises in the media sector to access finance for their activities and for private investors interest in expanding their media portfolio.

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Ready 2 Invest & Ready 4 Growth

Jan 2008 – Dec 2013

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The objective the Ready 4 Growth seminar series is to increase the possibilities of small enterprises in the media sector to access finance for their activities in the process of consolidation and growth.

Each R4G seminar gathers around 25 small innovative firms from the Media sector in the Barcelona region. The seminar analyses the possibilities of financing the activities of these companies and the possibilities for strategic growth actions. Some of the sessions are addressed to review the tendencies of the sector, the cooperation agreements with other firms, the protection of intellectual property rights, the development of sales strategies and the establishment of relationships with the main investors.

The Ready 2 Invest seminars, on the other hand, target CEOs and managers of venture capital companies. The session is addressed to investors with first investment experience in the media sector and those who have not but would like to start investing in media and need to know the trends and characteristics of the sector.

Since private investment has not had an active role in the media sector up to now this kind of events are necessary to stimulate the growth of the media sector at the regional level.

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Study on the Role of SMEs and European Audiovisual works in the Home Entertainment Sector (2008)

2008 | European Commission - MEDIA programme

The study focuses on home entertainment, which is any type of consumption of audiovisual works outside of dedicated places such as a cinemas. The analysis is based on a segmentation of the home entertainment market according to five content platforms: linear TV platforms, home video, VOD, games, mobile content. The scope of this study includes all 31 member countries of the MEDIA Programme (27 EU member states plus Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein).

Description

The first part of this report provides an overview of the current home entertainment market by describing practices, market trends, key players and legal framework in different segments of the sector and across different territories.

The report then focuses on challenges and opportunities brought about by new technologies such as new distribution platforms for European audiovisual works and SMEs active in the home entertainment sector.

Finally, it formulates a series of recommendations on how the European Commission could take these into account in the context of its policies and actions in favour of the audiovisual and home entertainment sector and its SMEs.

Aiming to stimulate the internationalization of Singaporean creative content companies, Singapore’s Media Development Authority commissioned peacefulfish to create a mentorship program entitled Singapore Meets Europe. The program was divided into 3 phases: a 2-day conference held in Singapore that was open to all local content companies and consisted of expert presentations and a workshop about European models for producing audiovisual content across multiple platforms. The second phase was a non-public workshop for selected Singaporean content producers, offering them one-on-one coaching focused on their individual project pitches in preparation for phase three of the mentorship program. Phase three was a pitching session held in Spain during which the Singaporean content companies pitched their projects to potential Spanish partners.